The Weekend Warrior: Dec. 5 - 7 - ComingSoon.net

The Weekend Warrior: Dec. 5 - 7 - ComingSoon.net

The key factor is that there are no major films in wide release, so carry-overs will take eight of the top nine spots. The one wide release, Punisher, is expected to bomb, finishing in sixth place despite being the only wide release and reaching 2400 theaters.

After that come four wild cards. The two Oscar hopefuls with big numbers last week, Milk and Slumdog Millionaire, will vie for a spot in the top ten, as will two limited releases which are new this week, Nobel Son and Cadillac Records.

Nobel Son has waited forever to get into circulation. I don't want to say it's an old film, but the co-directors are listed as the Lumiere Brothers. Seriously, it was screened at Tribeca back when New York was still owned by the Dutch and called New Amsterdam. OK, maybe it was only 20 months ago, but 20 months is two eternities when one is languishing in undistributed limbo. The film is apparently half thriller and half dark comedy, so nobody was been willing to stake anything on its commercial viability, but virtually everyone who saw it liked it, and it's rated 8.7 (!!!) at IMDb.

"In a tale of sex, violence, race, and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, Cadillac Records follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry."

I would like to see both of those, but I live in the outback now, so I'm not sure they'll come to a theater near me.